All posts by Kelly Leow
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Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival 2017: This Multicultural Delight’s Sixth Edition Kicked Into High Gear
Taking off from Barcelona, my plane crested a sea of clouds, thick and white like tundra. Here and there, the Mediterranean sparkled... -
"Let Actors Lose Themselves, But Give Them Love and Desire": Luca Guadagnino and Walter Fasano on Call Me By Your Name
Call Me By Your Name was hailed by many at January’s Sundance Film Festival as this edition’s best, and given its ingredients... -
Deal or No Deal: Movie Maker Academy Preaches an Unorthodox Way to Turn a Profit on Your Film
Give your film away for free, and you’ll make more money than you ever would selling it to distributors or to audiences.... -
Under Pressure: With Her Bitingly Excellent Horror-Comedy Bitch, Filmmaker Marianna Palka Wages a War Against Time
Sometimes a logline just calls your name. “A woman snaps under crushing life pressures and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog,”... -
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival 2017: An Oasis of Intimacy in the Vast Mountain Night
A diehard ski racer, Dave McCoy built the first of his portable rope tows on 11,053-foot Mammoth Mountain 80 years ago—for his... -
Festival Wrap: Bentonville Film Festival 2017 Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is
As the third woman from MovieMaker to attend the Bentonville Film Festival (May 2-7, 2017) in so many years of its existence,... -
The Cat Documentary Taking NYC By Storm: Ceyda Torun and Charlie Wuppermann on Their Gorgeous Film KEDi
“People who don’t love animals don’t love people either.” So says a fishmonger in Istanbul in an early scene of KEDi, the... -
MovieMaker Minute: Why Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name Was Shot Using Just One Lens
Our MovieMaker Minute series of videos are brief little nuggets of inspiration and advice from some of our favorite filmmakers. Luca Guadagnino’s... -
MovieMaker Minute: Bitch’s Jason Ritter and Marianna Palka on Getting Acting Feedback
Our MovieMaker Minute series of videos are brief little nuggets of inspiration and advice from some of our favorite filmmakers. At last... -
Green Lights: The Redford Center and Sundance’s “The New Climate” Provide Support for Environmentalist Film
Climate activists, rejoice: new support systems for environmentalist filmmaking are sprouting up, and there’s one name behind the curtain—Redford. The Sundance Kid...
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Inside the Issue: Distribution
Your Key to Distribution Success: Get Keyed in to Key Art, and You’re On Your Way to an Instantly Iconic Movie
Think about some of the most famous posters ever produced: Jaws, Scarface, Taxi Driver, The Shining, Ghostbusters, E.T., The Godfather. What do they have in common? To...2Inside the Issue: Festivals
deadCenter Film Festival 2017: Oklahoma City Is the Biggest Star Of This Consistently Great Event
Film festivals are as good as their programmers and audiences, and the deadCenter film festival has an abundance of excellence in both. From the very first...Inside the Issue: Producing
What Investors Want to Hear: Here Are the Things You Need to Be Telling Potential Financiers In Your Pitch
There are as many different ways to get funding as there are movies made, but the one thing all of those stories have in common is...6